Re: info.texi

2005-10-10 Thread Juri Linkov
> I think that editing an Info file in Info is even less often useful > than editing one directly thru Emacs. So I think we should > de-document the command. OK, I deleted all mentions of it from the Info manual. > And perhaps delete the code for it, too. I'm not sure about deleting the code (I

Re: info.texi

2005-10-10 Thread Juri Linkov
With all rearrangements completed in info.texi, perhaps someone should proof-read the Info manual before removing the corresponding to-do item from FOR-RELEASE? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.o

Re: M-x zone and buffer with leading space.

2005-10-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> In order to not mess up the whole thing and not bother the user with > a huge buffer list, all these buffers are hidden using the leading > space technique. I guess we should come up with a better way to do that. But at the same time, I can't think of why/when a "huge buffer list" would

Re: filling bug in text-mode

2005-10-10 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> The patch below fixes the bug. It assumes that more than one > successive periods should allow breaking even if they are > followed by just one space. > > That's not correct--it SHOULD demand two spaces or a newline, after > three periods, just as it does after one period. This wa

Re: 3 dots vanish at end of filled line

2005-10-10 Thread Luc Teirlinck
Indeed. And we've been through this discussion already. And since Emacs's Info mode does even more of those "dangerous" guessing games now than before, I think it's pretty clear that we've decided it's worth the risk. For other types of abuse of the Info format by info.el, at least cust

Re: 3 dots vanish at end of filled line

2005-10-10 Thread Luc Teirlinck
Stefan Monnier wrote: > And this type of bug can be very nasty when it does occur. Even with > the equal length heuristic, the situation leading to bugs is not > really that excessively unlikely in certain situations, like, for > instance, quoting program output or input inside @verba

Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-10 Thread Robert J. Chassell
... I do not think of those commands that I do not have a key binding for in my Emacs as "left overs". My wording was poor. I meant `used less frequently' -- remaining after giving out the keybindings. Thus, I use C-t (transpose-chars) and M-t (transpose-words) fairly frequently, but trans

Re: macos.texi updated

2005-10-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I'm not against the introduction of a new font specification style, >> but I think it is mainly for developers and power-users. Emacs >> already has a mechanism that enables users to specify fonts in a >> simpler way at the face level. > You're right.. But the population of "power users" in t

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: mode-line redisplay bug]

2005-10-10 Thread YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:40:18 +0100, Jason Rumney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > "Jan D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> AFAIK co-ordinates on W32 behave the same as on X, so your patch >> should be OK. It is easy to confirm anyway. > OK, I've installed the patch, but as YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu poi

Re: rcirc.el

2005-10-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
But I guess you already did that, as the code will use make-network-process when available ... There is no point maintaining support for old Emacs versions in a file distributed with Emacs. So how about deleting the code that supports old versions--for simplicity's sake. > (require '

Re: jka-compr + byte-compiler-base-file-name bug

2005-10-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
Thanks. ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: filling bug in text-mode

2005-10-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
The patch below fixes the bug. It assumes that more than one successive periods should allow breaking even if they are followed by just one space. That's not correct--it SHOULD demand two spaces or a newline, after three periods, just as it does after one period. ___

Re: 3 dots vanish at end of filled line

2005-10-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
(typically in index nodes for manuals In the last Texinfo release I added a cookie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@^H] to index nodes for precisely this purpose. You may recall the long discussion we had about it. I hope Emacs will take advantage of it, since that's the only reason it

Re: sh-tmp-file inserts unsafe code

2005-10-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
I installed your changes, and tried extrapolating them to the other shells. Thanks. ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: 3 dots vanish at end of filled line

2005-10-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
One issue with @enddots is that the recommended way to use @enddots should also qualify as an end-of-sentence. One idea that occurs to me is that you should write [EMAIL PROTECTED]', with a period in the argument. That period would be ignored by the command, but using it will make this look like

Re: Should xemacs feature test be removed from url package?

2005-10-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
Bill Perry did not respond. So let's delete those conditionals. Do you want to do it? ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: Yet another emacs icons

2005-10-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
> E-letter - vectorized gnu-horns from Luis Fernandes's GNU Emacs logo > http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/emacs/logo/logo3.html Those icons look very professional. Well done, for me those are the best ones proposed until now. I have to strain a little to see the E in the design,

Re: 3 dots vanish at end of filled line

2005-10-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
(setq-default global-font-lock-mode nil) is insufficient, in fact I don't think even think it undoes Info fontification. A few major modes turn on font-lock by default, but nowadays it should always be possible to turn it off with M-0 M-x font-lock. If you find any mode where this d

Re: 3 dots vanish at end of filled line

2005-10-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
And to avoid the "box bottom" problem, we could additionally check that the text is preceded by an empty line. It was hard for me to figure out what the "box bottom" problem means, and I still am not quite sure. Do you mean text like this? = = foo bar =

Re: Missing autoload cookies in newsticker.el

2005-10-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
Is this desired behavior? I would suggest putting autoload cookies at `newsticker-start' and `newsticker-show-news'. Thanks. I did that. ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: open-network-stream in batch mode causes SIGPOLL under GNU/Linux]

2005-10-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
The problem is that interrupt_input is always set, but the SIGIO handler is only installed in !noninteractive mode. Now make-network-process has code to call request_sigio after it has finished if interrupt_input is non-zero, but nobody is handling the SIGIO. Probably the best

Re: pgg symmetric encryption patch

2005-10-10 Thread Ken Manheimer
On 10/8/05, Richard M. Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pretesting surely won't start in the next few weeks. i'll continue on, happy to have breathing room. > Your papers cover only the specific files you assigned, > but they do cover changes to those files. So if you change > the code in a

Re: pgg symmetric encryption patch

2005-10-10 Thread Ken Manheimer
shit. the attachment was dropped. shit. trying again. sorry about the clutter. On 10/10/05, Ken Manheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > for those of you following the developments at home (:-), here's an > incremental patch on top of what i sent out a few days ago. i fixed a > small stack of b

Re: pgg symmetric encryption patch

2005-10-10 Thread Ken Manheimer
for those of you following the developments at home (:-), here's an incremental patch on top of what i sent out a few days ago. i fixed a small stack of bugs in pgg-gpg.el that settles my complaint about prompting with the secret key identity, and also filled in a small oversight in the changes i

Re: macos.texi updated

2005-10-10 Thread Adrian Robert
On Oct 9, 2005, at 2:16 PM, Richard M. Stallman wrote: You're right.. But the population of "power users" in this case for whatever reason seems fairly large (just subjective impression), and the requirement to learn XLFD (to compose a fontset, or whatever else) and partake

RE: wrapper fn for message and minibuffer-message?

2005-10-10 Thread Drew Adams
`minibuffer-message-at-end' would have no effect when the minibuffer is not active. OK, I understand you now, I think. `message' does this: if `minibufferp', then if `minibuffer-message-at-end' then don't erase minibuffer, but append message there else temporari

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: mode-line redisplay bug]

2005-10-10 Thread Jason Rumney
"Jan D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AFAIK co-ordinates on W32 behave the same as on X, so your patch > should be OK. It is easy to confirm anyway. OK, I've installed the patch, but as YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu pointed out, it may not deal with the left fringe width - which might be an explanation fo

Re: Comments on the Emacs icon discussion

2005-10-10 Thread David Kastrup
luis fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andrew Zhilin's submissions are quite slick. I like the smallest, > left-most icon where the top of the horn is chopped-off and it > resembles an "E"; but it doesn't really say "Emacs". I think the last ones with the writing pad underneath have the per

Comments on the Emacs icon discussion

2005-10-10 Thread luis fernandes
Greetings, Lennart Borgman invited me to comment on the discussion about a possible successor to the current Emacs icon. My early preference would have been for the splash-logo (red gnu with blue "Emacs") to be also used as the icon. Unfortunately, much of the detail of the splash-logo is lost wh

Re: Check in MH-E changes

2005-10-10 Thread Bill Wohler
Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm currently working on restructuring the MH-E sources (on the >> SourceForge side) to work with the sources in the Savannah repository. >> >> When I'm ready, I'll merge any Emacs MH-E changes back into SourceF

Re: wrapper fn for message and minibuffer-message?

2005-10-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
OK. If I understand you correctly, you would keep functions `message' and `minibuffer-message' as they are now. You would not eliminate either function. The former's default behavior would use nil for `minibuffer-message-at-end'; the latter would use non-nil. No. The idea is that

Re: Missing autoload cookies in newsticker.el

2005-10-10 Thread Ulf Jasper
On Monday, 10 October 2005, 16:38 +0200, Sascha Wilde wrote: > Is this desired behavior? I would suggest putting autoload cookies at > `newsticker-start' and `newsticker-show-news'. No, it's not desired. I'll add those magic comments. Cheers, ulf _

Re: 3 dots vanish at end of filled line

2005-10-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> turn off font-lock in your info buffers. > I'd love to turn off font-lock everywhere, I hate the incessant > pseudo-underlining and bolding in my various buffers (even running under > xterm it won't just give me plain text any more), but there is > apparently no way to do it without maintai

Re: sh-tmp-file inserts unsafe code

2005-10-10 Thread Kevin Rodgers
Sven Joachim wrote: How about rewriting sh-tmp-file so that it uses mktemp(1) to create the temporary file? What about those of us on systems that do not provide mktemp(1)? I'm running ksh 93 on Solaris 9. -- Kevin Rodgers ___ Emacs-devel mailing

Re: CVS HEAD unable to build currently?

2005-10-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Romain" == Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Romain> Should be fixed now, please try again. Works great, thanks. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing,

Re: 3 dots vanish at end of filled line

2005-10-10 Thread Karl Berry
Actually, the problem is in the Info format The problem is not, IMHO, Info format, which was always designed to be displayed as-is, not interpreted, since long before font-lock, highlighting, or any of this other stuff came into existence. The problem was, IMHO, starting down this road of "in

Re: Difficulty with mouse-1-click-follows-link

2005-10-10 Thread Chong Yidong
>> Thoughts? > > Try lowering the value of `double-click-time' in your setup. I have set > it to 150 and I'm pretty happy with that setting... but I very rarely > use double clicks in Emacs. I'm more interested in fixing the default behavior. Removing the sit-for in mouse-drag-region-1 won't hav

Re: no Emacs icon under GNOME?

2005-10-10 Thread Jan D.
"Jan D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Checked in, new options are -nb, --no-bitmap-icon. Does -nb have some historical use for this purpose. Otherwise, it would be more "logical" to use -nbi than -nb IMHO. No, I just looked at the other --no-* around it. But I didn't see -- no-blinking-cu

Re: rcirc.el

2005-10-10 Thread Johan Bockgård
Henrik Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eh, it also uses `caddr' `cadddr' and `cdddr'. There are compiler macros for these though. Ditto for first...tenth so those could also be used (and a few others). -- Johan Bockgård ___ Emacs-devel mailing

Re: rcirc.el

2005-10-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> ;; rcirc is a lightweight irc client for Emacs > A more elaborate "commentary" section in the code would be good. > As a minimum it should explain: > What is IRC? > Does it work only with irc.freenode.net ? Also, when I look around for Emacs packages, a problem I often encounter is that there

Re: sh-tmp-file inserts unsafe code

2005-10-10 Thread Reiner Steib
On Mon, Oct 10 2005, Emanuele Giaquinta wrote: > > "tmp = /tmp/" str ".$pid" \n > "fn sigexit { rm $tmp^* >[2]/dev/null }" \n) > (sh (file-name-nondirectory (buffer-file-name)) > ! > "TMP=`mktemp ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/" str ".XX`" \n > "trap \"rm $TMP* 2>/dev/null\"

Re: More X keysyms

2005-10-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Given the recent thread referencing keysyms, this seem apropos: > A patch was added to xorg today adding some more keysyms. The list is Hopefully some day we will revert to using Xlib's own table (via XmbLookupString) so we won't have to play catch up any more. Stefan __

Re: Better default values for tooltip padding and `tooltip-hide-delay'?

2005-10-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> 1. The tooltip font size should be the same as the size of the frame default >font. Let me add my vote to it. Stefan ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: 3 dots vanish at end of filled line

2005-10-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> How about recognizing them based on the number of characters in each > line? For a title or heading, you have a certain number of characters > of text, and the following line has the same number of characters, all > the same, and they are one of the fixed set used for "underlining". And to avoi

Re: 3 dots vanish at end of filled line

2005-10-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> It is trying to do the impossible. The problem is that we are dealing > with plain text, not formatted text with special markup for titles. Indeed. And we've been through this discussion already. And since Emacs's Info mode does even more of those "dangerous" guessing games now than before, I

Missing autoload cookies in newsticker.el

2005-10-10 Thread Sascha Wilde
Hi *, I have just noticed that newsticker is part of GNU Emacs CVS. But when I first tried to start it I experienced, that none of the expected user functions were available -- the reason is, that there are no magic autoload comment in newsticker.el. Is this desired behavior? I would suggest pu

Re: Yet another emacs icons

2005-10-10 Thread Lennart Borgman
Andrew Zhilin wrote: Hi All! In the attachment you will find zipped version (16, 24, 32, 48 pix 32bit-png and win32 .ico with all above) of emacs icon set, which I crafted last weekend. I will be happy if someone found them useful :) I have added these nice icons to the page with the icons

Re: filling bug in text-mode

2005-10-10 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> The patch below fixes the bug. It assumes that more than one > successive periods should allow breaking even if they are followed > by just one space. Thanks! Will you check this in? Werner ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org ht

Re: Yet another emacs icons

2005-10-10 Thread Frank Schmitt
Andrew Zhilin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the attachment you will find zipped version (16, 24, 32, 48 pix > 32bit-png and win32 .ico with all above) of emacs icon set, which I > crafted last weekend. I will be happy if someone found them useful :) > > E-letter - vectorized gnu-horns from Lu

Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-10 Thread Lennart Borgman
Robert J. Chassell wrote: The reason why using "M-x" does not appeal to me is that I don't think of that as the central feature of Emacs. ... Indeed, "M-x" is designed for commands that do not have a short key sequence. It is for commands that are `left over' from frequent use. I can

Re: rcirc.el

2005-10-10 Thread Henrik Enberg
Henrik Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ryan Yeske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kim F. Storm) writes: > > > > > > > > Do you really require cl at runtime or just at compile time? > > > > How can I find out? If I only use macros from the cl package? I must > > admit

Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-10 Thread David Kastrup
"Robert J. Chassell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At least, with the image of a Gnu head, no novice is going to think > that Emacs is a Gnu, although they might wonder about the connection > between GNU Emacs and an operating system with a Linux kernel. Please get your proselytizing module check

Re: rcirc.el

2005-10-10 Thread Henrik Enberg
Ryan Yeske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kim F. Storm) writes: > > > > > Do you really require cl at runtime or just at compile time? > > How can I find out? If I only use macros from the cl package? I must > admit I don't really understand when to use (eval-when-compile > (

Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-10 Thread Robert J. Chassell
The reason why using "M-x" does not appeal to me is that I don't think of that as the central feature of Emacs. ... Indeed, "M-x" is designed for commands that do not have a short key sequence. It is for commands that are `left over' from frequent use. I know I use a control command, l

Re: 3 dots vanish at end of filled line

2005-10-10 Thread Robert J. Chassell
The right way to produce output #3 is to use @enddots; it was designed specifically for that case. I presume it does not have that problem of uneven spacing. I had forgot about @enddots. Sadly, it is not usable in texinfo 4.8. @enddots does not work in DVI. Using texi2dvi, the comm

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: sit-for (detect_input_pending ?) and postfix input methods.]

2005-10-10 Thread David Kastrup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kim F. Storm) writes: > Why take the risk of breaking currently working code this close > (YMMV) to the release...? > > IMO, this is not the time for such a change in 22.x -- we know of > one place (flyspell) that was affected by the present behaviuor and > it has been fixed now

Re: rcirc.el

2005-10-10 Thread Kim F. Storm
Ryan Yeske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is well tested under both 21.3 and emacs-cvs (22). I'll update > this text, or should I just remove it? I suggest you remove it. > >>> (require 'cl) >> >> Do you really require cl at runtime or just at compile time? > > How can I find out? If I only

Re: no Emacs icon under GNOME?

2005-10-10 Thread Kim F. Storm
"Jan D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Checked in, new options are -nb, --no-bitmap-icon. Does -nb have some historical use for this purpose. Otherwise, it would be more "logical" to use -nbi than -nb IMHO. -- Kim F. Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cua.dk ___

Re: sh-tmp-file inserts unsafe code

2005-10-10 Thread Emanuele Giaquinta
Here it is one for c?sh. *** sh-script.elWed Sep 21 13:02:55 2005 --- sh-script.elMon Oct 10 11:57:41 2005 *** *** 3392,3398 "Insert code to setup temporary file handling. See `sh-feature'." (bash sh-append ksh88) (csh (file-name-nondirectory (buffer-f

Re: rcirc.el

2005-10-10 Thread Ryan Yeske
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kim F. Storm) writes: > I haven't looked closely at the code, but a few questions come to mind: > >> ;; rcirc is a lightweight irc client for Emacs > > A more elaborate "commentary" section in the code would be good. > As a minimum it should explain: > > What is IRC? > Does it w

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: open-network-stream in batch mode causes SIGPOLL under GNU/Linux]

2005-10-10 Thread Andreas Schwab
"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 3. Execute the following command. > >> % emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -l ./foo.el > >Then Emacs exits before the command finishes, and the following >error message appears. > >> SI/O possible > >The first "S" is the beginning of erro

Re: rcirc.el

2005-10-10 Thread Kim F. Storm
Ryan Yeske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > Included below is the latest version of rcirc.el, an emacs irc client, > which I am the sole author of. I have submitted copyright assignment > papers, which have been received by the FSF. I would like to offer > this code for inclusion in the

Re: tex-mode: \bf fontification bug

2005-10-10 Thread Andreas Schwab
Karl Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Synopsis: > > emacs -q /tmp/a.tex > > {\bf test} > > M-x font-lock-fontify-buffer > > error("No match %d in highlight %S" 2 (2 (tex-font-lock-append-prop (quote > bold)) append)) Thanks, I have installed a fix. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab,

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: sit-for (detect_input_pending ?) and postfix input methods.]

2005-10-10 Thread Kim F. Storm
"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then, why does sit-for return t if unread-command-events is not > nil? > > That is a good question. Should it return nil immediately > without waiting when unread-command-events is nonempty? > That would be more coherent than the current

Re: sh-tmp-file inserts unsafe code

2005-10-10 Thread Sven Joachim
Richard M. Stallman wrote: How about rewriting sh-tmp-file so that it uses mktemp(1) to create the temporary file? Would you like to send a patch? Well, it will take me quite some time to even understand the code for this function. ;-) But if nobody else volunteers, I'll dig into it.

Re: Install on MacOSX fails

2005-10-10 Thread Piet van Oostrum
> Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (RF) schreef: >RF> Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> In toplevel form: >>> emacs-lisp/checkdoc.el:2076:30:Error: Invalid read syntax: ")" >RF> Should be fixed now, please try again. Thanks. It works. The other problem (about the architect

Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-10 Thread Mathias Dahl
Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > These are on the web now, on > http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/NewIcons.html, together with the Gimp > sources that David sent me. Look after David on the page. > Personally I would like that kind of finishing on my suggestions with > M-x. The small vers

Re: rcirc.el

2005-10-10 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I like it. Would be nice with some kind of a prompt though. ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

jka-compr + byte-compiler-base-file-name bug

2005-10-10 Thread Karl Chen
Synopsis: (byte-compiler-base-file-name "a.el.gz") -> "a.el.gz" Correct answer, after patch below: (byte-compiler-base-file-name "a.el.gz") -> "a.el" 2005-10-09 Karl Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * jka-cmpr-hook.el (jka-compr-handler): Fix byte-compiler-base-file